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title: Bored of, bored with and bored by all mean the same; older writers o… — Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bored of, bored with and bored by all mean the same; older writers often prefer with or by, and younger speakers mostly say of. Who acts: older writers, younger speakers. A sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language course of Mov
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# Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 16

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Bored of, bored with and bored by all mean the same; older writers often prefer with or by, and younger speakers mostly say of.

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**Who acts:** older writers, younger speakers · **What happens:** bore, mean, prefer, say · **To what, where:** all, same · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (older writers, younger speakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:16
# text = Bored of, bored with and bored by all mean the same; older writers often prefer with or by, and younger speakers mostly say of.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bore** | participle |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | the same |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 3 | **prefer** | present | older writers |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | younger speakers |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:16`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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